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How to Create a Flower Bed
How to Create a Flower Bed. A flower bed enhances your home's curb appeal, provides shelter to neighborhood wildlife and supplies you with fresh cut flowers to beautify your home's interior. Invest time in the proper installation of a flower bed to give your yard visual interest all year.
A flower bed enhances your home's curb appeal, provides shelter to neighborhood wildlife and supplies you with fresh cut flowers to beautify your home's interior. Invest time in the proper installation of a flower bed to give your yard visual interest all year.
Things You'll Need
Spade
Sod cutter
Compost
Manure
Perennials
Foliage plants
Annuals
Design the flower bed on paper before you begin the installation. Note the bloom time and height of the flowers to help you plan their placement.
Adjust the style of the flower bed to complement the architecture of your home. If you live in a colonial home, a breezy cottage garden seems out of place.
Remove the sod with a sharp spade or a gas-powered sod cutter. Pile the sod upside down in the compost pile to return to the flower bed after decomposition.
Prepare the soil with ample amounts of compost or aged manure. You can till this humus in, or let earthworms do the work over the course of the growing season.
Choose flowers that provide a succession of blooms. Add foliage plants and mix plants with different blooming times to avoid the appearance of a dead zone in the flower bed.
Consider the mature size of the flowers before you give them a permanent position in your flower bed. Follow the spacing recommendation on the plant tag, even if it seems impossible that the plant could ever grow that big. Fill in temporary gaps with annuals.
Plant large drifts of the same flower specimen rather than many different flowers. Odd numbers of three or five plants provide a repetitive look that is pleasing to the eye.
